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Manual computation of Gower's similarity coefficient

There is an example on the computation of Gower's similarity coefficient on the page,

Gower's similarity coefficient

I am trying to work out the similarity manually between patient 1 and 2, however my computation is giving me completely different results. Here is the formula I use, in the order of the variables and their types $$ \frac{\left(1*\left(1 - \left(\frac{150-120}{150-110}\right)\right)+ 0 + 1 + 1 + 0\right)}{5} $$ I still cannot get the 0.0625 as indicated in the example. What am I doing wrong?